SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF ANNIE SMITH DICKSON 1962 She was called Annie Smith Dickson but that is not her name. Her full name is Mary Ann Elizabeth Smith Dickson. Her father's mother was a twin and they named her Ann Elizabeth. Her twin sister was named Mary. Her mother's name was Mary Ann also her grandmother, for several generations back, so she was named for her mother, her grandmothers on both sides of the family. She was born Nov. 21, 1874 in a little log house north of the North Morgan Cemetery, close to the house of the first bishop of North Ward, Bishop Wyman Parker. She was the daughter of Benjamin and Mary Ann Simmons Smith. Her father was one of the first Mormon pioneers to arrive in the Salt Lake Valley with the Hand Cart Company and helped to bring the first telegraph wire to the State of Utah. Her mother taught her to read at an early age and had her memorize the Articles of Faith when she was five years old. At the December Ward Conference in North Morgan Ward on the last Sunday of the year 1879 she was stood upon a table where she could see the audience and recited the Articles of Faith for them. The first Stake Sunday School superintendent, John K. Hall was present on the stand and gave her as an award a beautiful framed scroll with a poem he composed and wrote it on the scroll in his fine penmanship and at the top was written: To Annie Smith for reciting by memory the Articles of Faith. With her mother teaching her to read at an early age, when she entered school for the first year in North Morgan she was placed in the third grade because of her being such a splendid reader. She was a good writer also, one of the best later in high school. At the age of 13 years she discontinued public school and —3—